The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence

The IQA Lean Copilot combines AI and proven Lean methodology to deliver continuous value stream transparency, faster decision-making and tangible performance improvement.

What is IQA Lean Copilot?

The IQA Lean Copilot helps operations teams make faster, better decisions every day. It continuously analyzes production performance, uncovers inefficiencies, and recommends actions to drive measurable improvement.

How can the IQA Lean Copilot transform your operations?

Full Transparency Across All Value Streams

The IQA Lean Copilot provides automated, real-time visibility into all value streams. The resulting Digital Value Stream maps actual material flows across all production stages and links them through the bill of materials into one end-to-end view. Instead of manual snapshots, teams get a continuously updated, complete picture of their production, with no manual process mapping required.

Identify Improvement Levers and Act Proactively

Integrated Lean Analytics and autonomous AI agents continuously analyze value streams including waste, bottlenecks, WIP build-up, and deviations from target values. The most critical focus areas are prioritized automatically, with root causes explained directly in the value stream context. Instead of searching for problems, teams work on the levers that deliver the greatest impact.

Built for Manufacturing, Not for Data Scientists

The IQA Lean Copilot is grounded in proven Lean methodology. Every result is rooted in real production logic and traceable down to the last detail. Production teams are productive from day one, with no need to learn new methods and no specialized knowledge in AI or data analysis required. The focus stays where it belongs: on improving production processes.

What Do Customers Say About IQA?

Automotive OEM
+20%
OEE improvement during ramp-up
"The digital value stream has enabled us to stabilize cycle times during the ramp-up much faster."
Production Manager
Medical Technology
-50%
Reduction of throughput times
"Without IQA, we would not have achieved our ambitious goals of 50% throughput time reduction and 20% cost savings."
Plant Manager
High-Tech
+10%
Efficiency increase in assembly processes
"IQA revealed all the weaknesses in our value streams and helped us with our S4/HANA rollout."
Head of Production Planning

Which IQA Lean Copilot Features Make Lean Scalable?

Digital Value Stream

Live digital value stream from existing production data - for continuous value stream analysis.

Lean Analytics

Integrated analyses to increase manufacturing excellence: reduce bottlenecks, cut WIP, improve OEE and on-time delivery, among others.

Production AI Agents

Autonomous AI-based monitoring, proactive alerts and actionable guidance.

Value Stream Simulation

Simulation of the impact of production changes directly on the Digital Value Stream, with no additional modeling effort.

What makes IQA unique?

AI-Powered Lean Expertise

The IQA Copilot combines deep Lean knowledge with advanced AI to detect inefficiencies, recommend corrective actions, and shorten time to impact. Intelligent agents monitor performance, run simulations, and guide teams to the next best improvement, making Lean faster, smarter, and predictive.

Made for Manufacturing

Value stream visualizations and AI-guided analyses tailored for manufacturing are already integrated, enabling easy and immediate deployment by your team. There's no requirement for configuration or extensive expertise in AI and data mining.

Engineered for Complex Value Streams

Order and material flows are captured and analyzed at the push of a button, even in multi-stage and interconnected value streams. IQA utilizes Industrial Process Mining techniques specifically designed for production processes, along with machine learning algorithms, to provide in-depth insights into complex processes.

Data Quality is no Barrier

Through automated data quality checks, implausible booking data can be swiftly detected and excluded, enabling data-driven process analyses even with flawed source data. Additionally, the quality of the data can be specifically examined and analyzed.

Minimal Implementation Effort

IQA is a lightweight, cloud-based extension of your existing IT systems. Implementation typically takes only a few days and requires no additional infrastructure.

Why do customers choose IQA?

“IQA is like having a digital production consultant, who is always available.”
Dr. Benedikt Sitte, COO, Kampf GmbH
“IQA has convinced us! We are working at full speed on the rollout of the solution to benefit from the resulting transparency as soon as possible.”
Dr. Markus Böhm, Team Lead Smart Factory & Project Management, Liebherr COT
“IQA gives us a deep insight into our production processes and offers analysis options that were previously only possible with great manual effort.”
Rainer Gehring, Head of IT and Business Process Management, Schoeller
“The digital value stream has enabled us to stabilize cycle times during the ramp-up much faster.”
Production Manager, Automotive OEM
“Without IQA, we would not be able to achieve our ambitious goals of 50% throughput time reduction and 20% cost savings.”
Plant Manager, MedTech Manufacturer
“IQA helps our teams to focus. Instead of searching for problems, we now spend our time fixing the right ones.”
Head of Operational Excellence, Tier-1 Supplier
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence
The Lean Copilot for Manufacturing Excellence